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imbibe with the like force, with the ba t 

 off, I took two branches which I call M 

 and N; I fixed M in the fame manner as 

 the branch in the foregoing Experiment 

 with its top downwards, but firft I took off 

 all the bark from / to r. Then I fix'd in the 

 fame manner the branch N, but with its 

 great end downwards, having alfo taken off 

 all the bark from /to r ; both the branches 

 drew the mercury up to z, 8 inches; fo 

 they imbibed with equal ftrength at either 

 end, and that without bark. 



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Experiment XXVIII. 



'Aiigufl 13. I dripped the leaves off an 

 r Apple tree branchy and then fixed the great 

 end of the ftem in the gage ; it raifed the 

 mercury 2+1 inches, but it foon fubfided, 

 for want of the plentiful pcrfpiration of 

 the leaves, fo that the air came in almoft as 

 fait as the branch imbibed water. 





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Experiment XXIX. 



I tryed alfo with what force branches 

 Nvould imbibe, at their fmall ends, as they 



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